A long process of critical discussion and re-evaluation starting in the 1960s has revived Chesnutt's reputation.
South Korea's president has promised $89m (£56m) in state funds to revive the country's reputation as a world leader in stem cell research.
However, since the early '90s there have been attempts to revive his reputation.
Congress will embark this week on a major cost-cutting drive that conservative Republicans see as their party's chance to revive its reputation for frugality.
A significant victory would revive his flagging reputation.
However, from time to time, efforts are made to revive Nicholas's reputation.
What has turned things around and helped revive his reputation?
He then moved to Japan in an attempt to revive his damaged reputation.
Still, almost singlehandedly, he revived Chicago's reputation as the first city of American architecture.
A series of exhibitions revived Deakin's reputation after the obscurity of his final years.